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MEDIA LITERACY :
PROPAGANDA :
COUNTRIES: RUSSIA :
FAKE NEWS:
Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications
of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
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Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications
of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
The anonymous PropOrNot is calling for investigations of websites
including Wikileaks and major progressive publications.
By Max Blumenthal
AlterNet
November 25, 2016
http://www.alternet.org/media/washington-post-promotes-shadowy-
website-accuses-200-publications-russian-propaganda-plants
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/jsc7h8c
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A shady website that claims Russia is Manipulating US Opinion Through
Online Propaganda has compiled a blacklist of websites its anonymous
authors accuse of pushing fake news and Russian propaganda. The blacklist
includes over 200 outlets, from the right-wing Drudge Report and Russian
government-funded Russia Today, to Wikileaks and an array of marginal
conspiracy and far-right sites. The blacklist also includes some of the
flagship publications of the progressive left, including Truthdig,
Counterpunch, Truthout, Naked Capitalism, and the Black Agenda Report, a
leftist African-American opinion hub that is critical of the liberal black
political establishment.
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Called PropOrNot, the blacklisting organization was described by the
Washington Posts Craig Timberg as a nonpartisan collection of researchers
with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds. The Washington
Post agreed to preserve the anonymity of the groups director on the
grounds that exposure could result in their being targeted by Russias
legions of skilled hackers. The Post failed to explain what methods
PropOrNot relied on to conclude that stories planted or promoted by the
Russian disinformation campaign were viewed more than 213 million times."
(Timberg also cited a report co-authored by Aaron Weisburg, founder of the
one-man anti-Palestinian Internet Haganah operation, who has been accused
of interfering in federal investigations, stealing the personal
information of anarchists, online harassment, and fabricating information
to smear his targets.)
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Despite the Washington Posts charitable description of PropOrNot as a
group of independent-minded researchers dedicated to protecting the
integrity of American democracy, the shadowy group bears many of the
qualities of the red enemies it claims to be battling. In addition to its
blacklist of Russian dupes, it lists a collection of outlets funded by the
U.S. State Department, NATO and assorted tech and weapons companies as
allies. PropOrNots methodology is so shabby it is able to peg widely read
outlets like Naked Capitalism, a leading left-wing financial news blog, as
Russian propaganda operations.
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Though the supposed experts behind PropOrNot remain unknown, the site has
been granted a veneer of credibility thanks to the Washington Post, and
journalists from the New York Times, including deputy Washington editor
Jonathan Weissman to former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer, are hailing
Timbergs story as Pulitzer-level journalism. Russia appears to have
successfully hacked American democracy, declared Sahil Kapur, the senior
political reporter for Bloomberg. The dead-enders of Hillary Clintons
campaign for president have also seized on PropOrNots claims as proof that
the election was rigged, with Clinton confidant and Center For American
Progress president Neera Tanden declaring, Wake up people, as she blasted
out the Washington Post article on Russian black ops.
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PropOrNots malicious agenda is clearly spelled out on its website. While
denying McCarthyite intentions, the group is openly attempting to compel
formal investigations by the U.S. government, because the kind of folks
who make propaganda for brutal authoritarian oligarchies are often
involved in a wide range of bad business.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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